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This is a collection of web pages and web sites of Jan Frick. Some of this will be located with this home page, and some will physical be at other locations. The picture above is taken from our Skeie cabin.

ELIM Brass. I started to play in a band in 1965 and most of the time has been on Trombone (with short stunt on Baritone). First it was Grim skolemusikkorps and then Ynglingeforeningens Musikkkorps, both in Kristiansand. Then for many years playing was unorganized and I helped at Sunde skolekorps in Stavanger when I had daughters playing there for 18 years. Then I played at IMI Brass in Stavanger, and we participated in SIDDIS Brass and NM for Brass competitions. Then in 2019 I joined ELIM Brass. https://www.korpsnett.no/elimbrass


Stavanger Macintosh User Group, SMUG, is a nice place for exchanging ideas and helping each other on issues regarding use of Macintosh computers. Three friends and I started the group in 1985, and even if some people leave and some new arrive, we have run the group with 4-9 meetings a year since then until corona period with few meetings. There have been less frequent meetings after Corona. Last meeting was in February 2026. New meeting see ismug.no
See www.ismug.no for more information.

Ancestor research: MyHeritage-Frick & Relatives. Some time in the early 80-ties I started to write down facts about ancestors and relatives. Even if the close family is small, the number of people increases really fast when going back some steps and then forward again. First much came from "Bygdebok for Nes" and "Bygdebok for Sirdal" ( and I am not through these yet), and then I came across ancestor books for the families Schanke and Frick. Both are from 1890 so many newer relatives are missing. After that advances goes slower as search in church books and people mentioned at internet takes time. The MyHeritage publishing at the web enabled cross-checking with other people searching for ancestors, and also giving my own relatives a chance of providing feedback and updates. I appreciate the books from Justøy by Ellen Govartsen Tørgersen. The number of people increased a lot when the Garman-ancestor link was included. Both MyHeritage and www.macfamilytree.com er updated frequently and mainly have the same information.

APMS conference. This is a conference organized each year by IFIP 5.7 group. IFIP is the International Federation for Information Processing. IFIP have several international technical groups, and these have each a number of working groups. So Technical Group 5 have working group number 7 which was established in 1978. I have been a member since early 1990-ties. I was in charge of the APMS2011 conference. It was a lot of work but great fun and much dialogue with colleagues and friends from many countries. The APMS conference in 2024 is in Chemnitz/Zwickau (Germany), and I had a paper together with Kenn Steger-Jensen. APMS2025 was in Japan, and APMS2026 is in Bergamo, Italy. I am presenting a paper with Kenn Steger-Jensen and Hans-Henrik Hvolby.
https://www.apms-conference.org

CIAM is the Cluster for Industrial Asset Management, established in 1998. It deals with a broad range of topics related to Operations and Maintenance which both contributes to sustainability of an industrial organization as described in ISO55000. CIAM organizes workshops and seminars, and participate in Research and Development projects. I chaired CIAM 2018-2025, but participated in various roles since 1998. See https://ciam.uis.no

COM3. InterReg NorthSea project with 26 partners in 9 regions.
https://ruraldigital.eu/2022/07/22/com%c2%b3-training-solution-building-an-effective-business-stakeholder-network/